THE EMPLOYERS' SHEET ANCHOR.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 16 August 1910, Page 3

THE EMPLOYERS' SHEET ANCHOR.

I WILL THEY LOSE IT. [United Pbess Association.] NAPIER, Monday. At the annual meeting of the Hawkcs Bav Employers' Association the presi.>nt (Mr. H. G. Warren), speaking on the movement for a separate industrial district for Hawkes Bay, said that, without a doubt, they bad been treated with scant courtesy bytlie Minister for Labour. There were very good reasons for the movement, but, owing to influence brought to bear by the Labour leaders iit Wellington and Auckland, Mr. Millar had declined to consider the question at all. He dismissed the matter right off. Under the new Arbitration Act much more red-tape and more delav took place in getting a settlement of disputes than previously. He idmitted that a good many agroem „> Us were made through the Conciliation Council, but they were for the isake of quietness. The employers suffered and made these agreements at their own cost, and the -consequence- was that every day there were fewer appeals to the Court," with the ultimate result f.hat the Administration won I'd discover that the Court had not enough to do. and the day that the employers Jose the Court they have lost everything—their sheet anchor. The appeal to the Court is their only hope.